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Perl Blogs

Tim Bunce posted about Perl Blogs last week talking in part about the sorry state of results
that comes from Google when you perform a “perl blog” search.

To help rectify this Tim has added the phrases “perl blog” & “perl programming” to his blog page.
I’ve also done the same to my sidebar and hopefully more Perl Blogs can follow Tim’s lead to help get rid of Google sickly results.

Of course there are additional motives behind all this. Now whether your concerned about Perl’s position in TIOBE results or not it is annoying that they have a few flaws in their processes which can paint a very inaccurate picture.

If I’m reading this correctly then only 0.12% of all the CPAN pages have the phrase “Perl Programming” in!

TIOBE use +”perl programming” in their searches. Now imagine if a phrase like….

CPAN – The Perl Programming Archive

was added to every page on CPAN 😉

NB. And remember that CPAN pages are also mirrored on other websites!

I think it makes sense that every CPAN page is included by TIOBE in their analysis. If pages like these don’t show the popularity of a language then what does!

Bumping your TIOBE ratings like this isn’t new because do you recall the rise of Delphi from end of last year? Well this was due in part by the Delphi community making a similarconcertedeffort. Also it was due to fact of an emergence of a shiny new Google product and TIOBE having “Chrome” has part of the Delphi search criteria 😉

/I3az/

PS. On a slightly related note I have also added a Perlsphere badge to this blogs sidebar.

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My name is Barry Walsh. I'm a freelance IT consultant from London, UK. [more]

This blog is mostly about Perl programming because this is what I use and love (and occasionally hate!) for the majority of my working (and sometimes non-working) day.

Occasionally I will touch on other subjects like PostgreSQL, Mac OSX, UNIX, Linux, Ruby, jQuery, Javascript, XML and many more techie things that I also play with regularly. Other non techie aspects of my life may slip in now and again but I'll try and keep that to a minimum because its normally boring anyway :)